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4How Metaphor Functions in the Zhuangzhi: The Case of the Unlikely MessengerIn Livia Kohn (ed.), New Visions of the Zhuangzi, Three Pines Press. pp. 102-114. 2015.
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The Unity of Heaven and Earth in the ZhuangzhiIn Chinese Culture and Human-Nature Relations, Society For the Study of Religious Philosophy. pp. 373-392. 2015.My scholarly approach is to consider and treat the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi as an integral text regardless of whether its composition is the result of many hands. I treat this in much the same fashion as Western biblical scholars study the Western bible for its meaning, whether or not it actually came into being over many years and was the result of the work of multiple authorship. It is my opinion that such an approach is more appropriate to the eminent status of the text of the Zhuangzi …Read more
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6The Ethical Producer (3rd ed.)In László Zsolnai (ed.), Spirituality, Ethics, and Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 61-74. 2015.
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An Aristotelian Renaissance: Aristotelian Ethics for TodayIn Maria Adam & Maria Veneti (eds.), Greek Philosophy and Moral and Political Issues, Ionia Publications. pp. 9-26. 2015.
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Leibniz, Infinity and the DivineIn Charles Tandy (ed.), Death and Anti-Death, Three Centuries After G. W. Leibniz, Ria University Press. pp. 43-56. 2016.
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The Four Dimensions of Aesthetic Experience: Collingwood and BeyondIn Fabian Dorsch & Dan-Eugen Ratiu (eds.), Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics, University of Fribourg. pp. 24-37. 2016.
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11A Paragon of Righteous VirtueIn Heather L. Rivera & Robert Arp (eds.), Perry Mason and Philosophy: The Case of the Awesome Attorney, Open Court Press. pp. 11-27. 2020.
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Marie Pauline Eboh’s Dedication to Humanity and Philosophy: Gynism, Hegel’s Master Slave Dialectic, Marxism and the Influence of Simone de BeauvoirIn Maraizu Elechi & Christiana C. M. N. Idika (eds.), Philosophical Essays in Honour of Marie Pauline Eboh. pp. 121-136. 2021.
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15Buddhist Economics: The Global ViewIn Michel Dion & Moses Pava (eds.), The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism: Contributions of World Religions and Spiritualities, Springer. pp. 339-360. 2022.This chapter describes how Buddhist economics can proactively contribute to the concept of conscious capitalism by importing Buddhist ethical principles to give concrete content to the aspirational idea of conscious capitalism. Conscious capitalism becomes ethically conscious capitalism with its Buddhist complement. For Buddhism, the central motivation for human behavior is deep compassion for all sentient beings. In Buddhist economics, compassion is translated into compassion for the poorest. H…Read more
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14Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical RootsPhilosophy East and West 44 (2): 411-413. 1994.
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5The Homogeneity and the Heterogeneity of the Concept of the Good in PlatoPhilosophical Inquiry 4 (1): 30-39. 1982.
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6The Confucian Golden Rule: A Negative FormualtionJournal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (3): 305-315. 1985.
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5On Chuang Tzu as a Deconstructionist with a DifferenceJournal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4): 487-500. 2003.
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7The Logical Reconstruction of the Butterfly Dream: The Case for Internal Textual TransformationJournal of Chinese Philosophy 15 (3): 319-339. 1988.
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5Aristotle and Averroes: The Problem of Necessity and ContingencyPhilosophical Inquiry 25 (3-4): 189-197. 2003.
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292The Homogeneity and the Heterogeneity of the Concept of the Good in PlatoPhilosophical Inquiry 4 (1): 30-39. 1982.The thesis I should like to advance in this essay is that Plato cannot and, in fact, does not adhere consistently to the doctrine that to know the good is to do the good. First, in order to display the paradoxes in the Platonic ethical system, I shall discuss the concept of the homogeneity of the good which Plato explicitly endorses. Second, by referring to Plato's practice, I shall endeavor to demonstrate that he treats the good as heterogeneous although this treatment is inconsistent with his …Read more
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36Harmony & Strife (edited book)Columbia University Press. 1989.This volume is intended for professional philosophers and laymen with an interest in East-West studies and comparative philosophy and religion. The central focus is the concept of comparing perspectives from both the Eastern and the Western philosophical traditions on harmony and strife. The unique and happy result is an East-West anthology which is directed at analyzing a single philosophical problem which is of importance to both traditions. Unlike many anthologies which tend to be collections…Read more
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13Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management EthicsPrentice-Hall. 1993.Paul A. Vatter, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University, writing of Global Disasters: Inquiries into Management Ethics, ‘In my view one of the most important things that can be done to improve ethics in management is, through cases, to sensitize managers to ethical issues in situations in which they did not perceive themselves as being involved. His well-documented and detailed cases stimulate great interest. His diagnosis of the process through which ethica…Read more
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44Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters (8th ed.)SUNY Press. 2008.Robert C. Neville, Dean of Theology and Professor of Philosophy, Boston University, in his comments on Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation for the State University of New York press: ‘The present outstanding volume by Robert Allinson ... initiates a new direction ... His new direction for understanding Chuang-Tzu is his comprehensive and detailed argument that Chuang Tzu was advocating an ideal of sageliness. Whereas many interpreters have claimed that Chuang Tzu used his metaphorical langua…Read more
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15Saving Human Lives: Lessons in Management EthicsSpringer. 2010.S. Prakash Sethi, President, International Center for Corporate Accountability, Inc., University Distinguished Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York, writes: "Saving Human Lives gives a step by step account of how management systems can be built that can prevent hitherto "unpreventable" disasters. Professor Allinson weaves convincing arguments from original linguistic, literary and ethical analyses and shows how these arguments apply to highly detailed and well documented case s…Read more
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11A Metaphysics for the Future (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2018.Lewis Hahn, Editor of Library of Living Philosophers, including Quine, Gadamer, Davidson, Ricoeur, writes: "Professor Allinson’s work [A Metaphysics for the Future] is impressive. I do not remember when in recent years I have read a more exciting systematic study. With a new phenomenology, a distinctive method and unique modes of validation for philosophy, and an extraordinary command of both Eastern and Western philosophy, Professor Allinson develops his own bold, imaginative and challenging s…Read more
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13Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations (2nd ed.)Routledge. 2019.Anthony C. Yu, Carl Buck Distinguished Professor in Humanities, Chairman, Division of East Asian Languages, University of Chicago, Divinity School, writes: "Robert Allinson's book represents tremendous thoughtfulness, originality, and erudition. Its wide-ranging and lucid discussions cover a huge terrain, from ancient metaphysics to quantum mechanics. The enlistment of certain classical Confucian concepts and themes at critical junctures to advance the book's argument also provides luminous comp…Read more
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21Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of TruthPalgrave Macmillan. 2022.Slavoj Žižek writes: "Today philosophy is approaching a double end. Physics and brain sciences offer answers to the big metaphysical questions (is the universe infinite? Do we have a free will?), while what remained of philosophy is mostly getting lost in historicist relativism, reducing truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” But more and more people are tired of this game: the need for a new beginning, for authentic metaphysics, is felt everywhere. And Allinson does something that we all secretl…Read more
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17On the Question of Whether We Need a New Enlightenment for the 21st CenturyDialogue and Universalism 33 (1): 217-228. 2023.It is gratifying to learn that there are fellow humanist philosophers who pay homage to the Enlightenment and its legacy. Such a humanist philosopher is Michael Mitias. He has taken precious time and the labor of his active and synoptic thought to both read the trilogy I have had the privilege of guest editing and what is more, to write about it. Hence, I feel that he deserves a response. I shall address some of the key points that he has raised in the interest of dialogue, an activity which he …Read more
University of Texas at Austin
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Metaphysics |
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Value Theory |
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
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Aesthetics |
Asian Philosophy |
Philosophy of Mind |
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